- Under what circumstances should a GrooveA 52ac start broadcasting its SSID?
- Is it possible to connect two devices, each with a single PoE-in ethernet port together, using a female-female connector?
- Can I configure the LHGG LTE6 Kit and GrooveA 52ac in such a way that the LTE6 Kit provides internet access as a modem, and the GrooveA 52ac acts as a router and access point?
Apologies in advance for the newb questions, and thanks to anyone kind enough to help. I realise that the burden is on me to figure this stuff out, and I need to learn quite a bit more. Any help that friendly folks here can provide will ease my pain figuring this out through trial-and-error 
I’ve managed to get my LHGG LTE6 Kit working (touch wood - I haven’t checked that it’s still working this morning!) and now I need to try and configure the GrooveA 52ac that I bought to go with it. My intention was that I’d connect the two together to provide a wifi network, connected to the internet in a remote rural location. I realise that I should have done more research before buying the hardware!
1. Under what circumstances should a GrooveA 52ac start broadcasting its SSID?
I’ve connected my Mac to the GrooveA 52ac via an ethernet cable and PoE injector. I’m able to configure the device via the web UI, and I’ve set it to be a ‘Home AP’, setting a WPA2 password and my country. However, no devices can see the SSID being broadcast, and similarly they can’t connect to the SSID when entering via textbox in MacOS or iOS. The GrooveA 52ac can itself scan for other networks in the area, so I know that at least the aerial is working and it’s able to ‘talk’ wifi.
Is it the case that it won’t advertise its SSID and allow connections if it itself is not connected to a network? Because it’s only plugged into my Mac and not some other router, is it assuming that it can’t possible act as an AC and therefore refusing to allow connections? Or are there a bunch of settings that I’ve likely missed?
2. Is it possible to connect two devices, each with a single PoE-in ethernet port together, using a female-female connector?
In my running theme of lack of research, I naively thought I’d be able to connect the two devices together using a single run of ethernet cable. As I should have realised, both devices are PoE in with a single ethernet port. I’m wondering if they’ll be able to talk to each other if I connect them in the following fashion:
LTE6 <-- ethernet --> PoE injector | data ethernet --> female/female RJ45 connector <-- data ethernet | PoE injector <-- ethernet --> Groove A 52ac
Hopefully that’ll work physically? Which then brings me on to…
3. Can I configure the LHGG LTE6 Kit and GrooveA 52ac in such a way that the LTE6 Kit provides internet access as a modem, and the GrooveA 52ac acts as a router and access point?
When I plug my laptop into the LTE modem it’s acting as a router, taking the IP address 192.168.188.1 for itself and running a DHCP server that dishes out an address for my Mac. When I plug into the GrooveA 52ac, it does the same albeit on 192.168.88.1. I’m guessing that I’ll need to tell the LTE modem to stop trying to be a router? Or will everything just magically work because they’re on different subnets, and they’ll figure out how to route traffic to each other? This is where I’m painfully ignorant, and it frustrates me how little I understand. Cloud architecture for enterprises - fine. Home networking? Hopeless!